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Posted by: ordnance11 - 03-15-2010, 05:05 AM - Forum: General Chatter
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James Bond or Ghost in the Shell?
I say its the latter. Considering how easy it is to hijack someone's ID nowadays. I'd say the Mossad took a couple of true ID's for their hit teams and then changed them back to their true identities or gave them new ones after the operation. No one had ever accused the Mossad of institutional bungling. Dubai's showing them on TV may have null value. What is the use of all these biometric equipment if you can swap identities like trading cards?
On a related note...Peter Graves aka Jim Phelps died.
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Posted by: M Fnord - 03-14-2010, 10:11 PM - Forum: Fenspace
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Okay, here's my first draft on the Centauri A system. Despite the names, there are no giant blue catpeople wandering around. At least, not at the moment... you know fen, after all. Comment @ will. --Mal
{{Starbox
|name=Rigel Kentaurus A
|image=
|image_size=
|caption=
|constellation=Centaurus
|right ascension=14h 39m 36.4951s
|declination=-60° 50' 02.308"
|spectral type=G2V
|distance=4.365 ± 0.007 ly
|other designations=Alpha Centauri A, a Cen A, a¹ Centauri, GJ 559 A, HR 5459, HD 128620, GCTP 3309.00, LHS 50, SAO 252838, HIP 71683
}}
''Alpha Centauri A'' or Rigil Kentaurus ("Foot of the Centaur" in Arabic) is the fourth brightest star in the night sky as well as the brightest star in Constellation Centaurus. Like Sol, it is a yellow-orange main sequence dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type G2 V.
''(Boilerplate from [http://www.solstation.com/ SolStation.com])''
Together with [[Rigel_Kentaurus_B|Alpha Centauri B] and [[Proxima Centauri] Alpha Centauri A forms a loose trinary systemThere is some debate about wether or not [[Proxima Centauri] is actually part of a trinary system with the others, see [http://www.solstation.com/stars/alp-cent3.htm SolStation.com] for more details., and is one of the closest stars to Sol at a distance of about 4.40 light-years. Alpha Centauri A and B orbit a common point at an average distance of about 23.7 AUs.
===Rigel Kentaurus A System===
The Kentaurus A system was first surveyed by the [[Trekkie] ''Phoenix'' expedition in early 2009. The system consists of six planets:
* '''Klymene''' (Kentaurus A I)
* '''Epimetheus''' (Kentaurus A II)
* '''Anchiale''' (Kentaurus A III)
* '''Perses''' (Kentaurus A IV)
* '''Leto''' (Kentaurus A V)
* '''Cronus''' (Kentaurus A VI)
(It should be noted here that, once the Rigel Kentaurus system was named, a general moritorium was declared on using Greco-Roman mythology for planet names; all the good ones are already in use back home.)
Epimetheus, the largest gas giant in the system, holds special interest because of its habitable moon '''Pandora'''. Pandora is the first life-bearing world discovered away from Sol, containing a viable ecosystem similar to that of Earth's Devonian period. Unfortunately, Pandora's atmosphere is not breathable by humans, meaning the moon is relegated to wildlife studies and other scientific endeavoursThe Federation Colonial Service has entertained studies on colonizing Pandora (see da Quirm, L., "City-Scale Filtration Tents and Their Appllications." Prometheus Forge, 2015) though it has not yet put any plan into action.. '''[[Starbase 2]''' was placed in Pandora orbit as a permanent research facility.
Anchiale, the next planet out from Epimetheus, is notable as a slightly-denser and marginally more habitable [[Mars] analogue.
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